Immigration activist interrupts Joe Biden at debate with Mexican scarf banner demanding he 'stop all deportations' DemocraticDebate2020
An immigrants rights activist snuck in a message on a Mexican rebozo scarf to interrupt former Vice President Joe Biden during the second Democratic debate Wednesday night—"Stop All Deportations On Day One."
"I did this because the immigrant community in Michigan is facing a crisis and we need our voices and our demand to be heard: any candidate who claims to be against Trump's raids and family separations needs to make a real commitment to protect all 11 million undocumented immigrants from detention and deportation," Ofelia, a leader with immigrant rights group Movimiento Cosecha in Detroit who only wanted to be identified by her first name, said in a statement to"That means...
After Movimiento Cosecha activists interrupted Biden, New York City major Bill de Blasio asked the former vice president directly about his past with deportations. "I was vice president. I am not the president," Biden said, again going around the issue."I keep my recommendations in private."protested outside Biden's campaign headquarters in Philadelphia and demanded that he apologize for families who were separated during the Obama era. They called on the former vice president to adopt the demands of their dignity platform.
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